#journalism (16 links)
- Invisible men - How objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion | Books & arts | The Economist economist.com
Back in the 1920s, Lippmann might have agreed with much of this. He saw objectivity not as a magical state of mind or a view from nowhere, but as a practical process. Journalism should aim for “a common intellectual method and a common area of valid fact”, he wrote. That does not mean using euphemisms in place of plain language, or parroting both sides of an argument without testing them. Indeed, when journalism has erred in recent years, it has often done so by misinterpreting objectivity, rather than upholding it. The most persuasive calls for moral clarity today articulate something close to Lippmann’s original conception of objectivity.
<blockquote>I think there is an equally diffuse malaise today - waiting for a new kind of journalism to bring it into focus. Like with McClure's it won't be just a catalogue of shocking facts - it will be an imaginative leap that pulls all the scandals together and shows how they are part of some new system of power that we don't fully comprehend.</blockquote>
- Times editor James Harding outlines plans for online charging | Media | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"We're working on the exact pricing model, but we'd charge for a day's paper, for a 24-hour sign-up to the Times. We'll also establish a subscription price as well." Good luck with that.
- Hack Day tools for non-developers simonwillison.net
For our first hack day, I put together a list of “tools for non-developers”—sites, services and software that could be used for hacking without programming knowledge as a pre-requisite. Here’s the list so far.
- Newspaper Club | Helping people to make their own newspapers newspaperclub.co.uk
We're building a service to help people make their own newspapers.
- Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab niemanlab.org
"Journalism has been crowdsourced before, but it’s the scale of the Guardian’s project — 170,000 documents reviewed in the first 80 hours, thanks to a visitor participation rate of 56 percent — that’s breathtaking." Brilliant.
- stevenberlinjohnson.com: Old Growth Media And The Future Of News stevenberlinjohnson.com
- #DataJourn part 1: a new conversation (please re-tweet) | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog blogs.journalism.co.uk
In short: OU academic Tony Hirst produced a rather lovely map, on the suggestion (taunt?) of the Guardian’s technology editor, Charles Arthur, and the result? A brand new politics story for the Guardian on MPs’ expenses.
- Headlessness - Light pollution is complicated (or, don't blame it on the lighting designer) headlessness.com
The lighting designers take the rap for light pollution once more. Allow me to say a word or two in their (or, er, our) defence.
- MediaOnTwitter / FrontPage mediaontwitter.pbwiki.com
Journalists, Bloggers & Media Outlets on Twitter
"[With eyetracking] we can see that a user may navigate the page of an interface that houses the info she wants," she said, "but if the text is poorly presented, or the navigation is cluttered, or there are too many superfluous images so she cannot easily
- Thank You Stephen Colbert. thankyoustephencolbert.org
- Guardian Unlimited | Life | Guardian life bad science guardian.co.uk
Atomic tomatoes are not the only fruit